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I'd like to buy some inexpensive windows 8 tablet test device.
There is absolutely no urgency and I can wait!!! (1 year?!)
At any rate, I found that one: B110[^]

It's so close to be good (a few $ above 300, I'd like to get below...)
And.. I read it had problem with anything 3D...
Well I want a test device so bad performance should be a plus!
But I'm particularly interested in testing D3D (particularly my wrapper! http://directxwinrt.codeplex.com/[^])
So... I rather avoid a device which is below average on that side...

So the questions are:
- is the B110 any (much?) worse than other device 3D wise?
- is there any other such goodly priced windows 8 device?

It’s a significant finding in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

"According to astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, evidence of prebiotic molecules have been discovered in interstellar space — the first such evidence unearthed. The finding, according to experts, could increase the odds of discovering life outside of our own solar system."

yrs, Bill

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.

While I wish it were within my powers to enable you to have as many out-of-body experiences as you would wish for, you are right, I cut out the long section I had written. Anyway, I hope you were at least partially amused.

Just came to the sudden conclusion that it wasn't what I wanted to post on the Lounge: my feeling was it was far too long, off-topic, too personally revealing, would be too much of an easy target for ridicule, or mockery, but, the contents of what you read were, biographically, factual.

The French "epigram" (that's what Wiktionary labels it) you mention (perhaps more of an aphorism ?) would have been at least an interesting riposte, had I left that content in. Unfortunately, I cannot read French, that lovely, liquid, language, but, I did know the "idiomatic" usage of that phrase. And, just the thought of it, brings me a smile.

Too bad I didn't keep a copy of that redacted content: I had it on the clipboard, intending to "salt it away," but then I forgot to save it immediately, and did something else with the clipboard. Of course I could resurrect those words: more than I can say about this aging body.

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.

The bit where they admit finding a microscopic bit of dust on the telescope, which distorted their findings from "not even remotely interesting" to "AN AMAZING DISCOVERY!!!", will be buried on page 82 of some academic journal that's not even read by the people who write for it.

I'm looking for these things that look like a miniature chest of drawers, I'm guessing 2 feet by 1 foot by some depth of less than a foot, with little plastic drawers, about 1 or 2 inches wide by 1 inch high and they fit into the box-like structure.

The things are made to sit on a shelf or a table. They typically have 10 or 20 drawers, sometimes 30.

It's usually called an organizer, and Akro-Mills is one of the largest suppliers. Rubbermaid also makes a line of them, along with many other plastics manufacturers. Any hardware store will carry a good line of them, as do most office supply stores.

Has anyone else noticed that icons seem to be pretty inconsistent in Windows 7 or am I doing something wrong? My applications never had issues with icons and now it seems like every other install will have some sort of icons issue (where you can't see one or two of them) and you have to go delete the icon cache to get it back. Is anyone else seeing this?

I've been sorting out PC problems for a few years and seen every version of Windows degrade in some way or another after a new version comes along.

The newer features in a later OS seem to upset earlier versions when Microsoft try to offer the new features to the older OS via Windows Update. I saw XP degrade when Windows Presentation Foundation became available, ditto .NET 3.5 and 4.0. Similar problems happened with Windows 2000 after XP came out.

I read the message you linked to, and I wondered who, or what "Tenacious D" was. Unfortunately, I googled, and found their "music" (?) on YouTube, but, luckily, it took me less than two seconds to turn off the track I started playing, possibly averting permanent brain-damage.

But, from searching on "Tenacious D Syndrome," on Google: it appears you may be the originator of the phrase. So, may I ask you: what does it mean to you ?

In any case, if whatever that phrase means inspired you, I think it's great !

yours, Bill

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.

Yep, I coined the term "Tenacious D Syndrome". In my original post was a link to a YouTube video of the music video for their song, "Tribute". Long story short: they played the greatest song in the world, but then forgot it, so this song is a tribute to that song.

So, Tenacious D Syndrome is when you think of something great, but the forget it before you write it down.

That's why I use Evernote on my phone, tablet, and computer, so there's a good chance I'll be able to write it down no matter where I am. Then when I get bored I look back through my notes and see what looks interesting.